SourceForge only puts the last uploaded file as the most current, in this case the "exe" file. Those wishing to find the zip file must choose files and navigate the directories to find the BAT 4.1.zip file.

What exactly am I supposed to do to make BAT work with Steam BTS?
The situation is as follows -
the desktop BTW shortcut says steam://rungameid/8800
I see the game is installed in Documents\My Games\Beyond the sword
BAT exe file successfully completes the installation procedure, but mentions that it cannot locate bts as described earlier
upon said completion I start BTS normally and no trace of BAT is there. It also creates a desktop shortcut that leads nowhere (it says C:\Civ4 Beyond the sword\bts.exe or something like that IIRC)

What exactly am I supposed to do to make BAT work with Steam BTS?
The situation is as follows -
the desktop BTW shortcut says steam://rungameid/8800
I see the game is installed in Documents\My Games\Beyond the sword
BAT exe file successfully completes the installation procedure, but mentions that it cannot locate bts as described earlier
upon said completion I start BTS normally and no trace of BAT is there. It also creates a desktop shortcut that leads nowhere (it says C:\Civ4 Beyond the sword\bts.exe or something like that IIRC)

What do I need to do?

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I don't have a Steam version, so I can't be 100% sure, but this should work...

The reason the installer doesn't work is that the installer can't see the Steam registry keys. Since I don't have a Steam copy of BTS, I can't make the installer see it. For Steam users, the only way to get BAT installed is to use the zip file. Sorry, but I can't do much about it, unless someone wants to export their Windows registry and post it, but that's a security issue...

The Steam version doesn't load BTS mods from the My Games folder. You have to go into the application folder, steamapps/common/Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword/Beyond the Sword/MODS
(Beyond the Sword is subfoldered twice)
I think the reason is because The Steam version treats BTS as its own game and not a DLC or expansion or things like that. So it has its own folder. But then it has to recreate the folder structure that the game originally had (because why bother doing anything nasty like refactoring), which was a Beyond The Sword folder in the Civ IV app folder.

Anyway, put the BAT folder in the MODS folder I mentioned, and then you'll load it up each time you play, explicitly. I think there's a way to config civ to run a certain mod by default, but I don't know it.

.... if you're sure you're looking in the right place, maybe your system is hiding the file from you?
If it is, it thinks a simple .ini is a system file, and hiding the real ones is a good safety measure, so instead of setting it visible, go to your system command prompt and execute the command for notepad:

.... if you're sure you're looking in the right place, maybe your system is hiding the file from you?

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Found the ini file and opened.
I'm sure the 'specify a mod folder' wasn't in that ini before lol
Anyway, i edited the 'specify a mod folder', saved, closed.
Loaded game, but bat mod still doesn't load up automatically.
Just checked ini folder and mod value is 0 - not sure why it hasn't saved ?